An evening with Indians! :)

Its feels so comforting when in a land thousand of miles away from your own land, you meet the people from your own place. I had this exciting opportunity due to Gautam Sheet, a researcher in NIMS. It was on the eve of 22nd june,2007 (Saturday).
I found Gautam on orkut before coming over to Japan. I contacted him via scrapbook. He was more than happy to hear from me and told me to bring an umbrella. This advice was really of great value as it rained just the next day of my arrival. Well, on Friday Gautam scrapped me to come to room no 5801 at about 8pm which he later shifted to 9pm. I went to the room but it was locked. I waited there for about 5 minutes when Gautam came. he was also surprised to see that the people living in the room had not come till then. We decided to wait for them outside.
But cold wind was blowing at that time of night. I was feeling very cold. Seeing me like this, Gautam took me in another room, where I met those wonderful people. There was Gautam's wife, Mr & Mrs Kalol with their daughter (8 months old cutie :) ) and one more pair with their daughter. I forgot the name of the family. There was more person whose name I am forgetting, thanks to my excellent memory, but he became a quite good friend of mine. I would soon know his name. I have to be more careful to remember people's name !!!
All of them were Bangla speaking people, so many times just shifted to that language. Then someone would say that we should talk in Hindi (as I was sitting there!). Well, still I was able to understand some of their conversation. They talked about reservations, films, Japanese and many other things. Mr Kallol gave a good solution for our reservation policy. He suggested that Indian Government should make a policy that whosoever is born in India would be an SC! :D
Well, they also talked about the Japanese women ... that they are so slim but their babies are so healthy! They also said that Japanese would like to tame any animal!
Then came the best of all ... FOOD.. INDIAN FOOD!! I wasn't feeling comfortable being there because I thought that may be I was an uninvited guest! But the warmth of all the people gave me some confidence. I still ate very less because to avoid food earlier (when I was feeling really uninvited guest!!) I had already said that I had taken my dinner. But they insisted so much that I couldn't resist them. But the dinner was really delicious. There was daal, mixed Veg, chicken and rice. Daal was the dish I was missing for so long, so was grateful to have it there!
After that we took leave from there and then along with my friend, came to my room as I was having some problem operating the washing machine for the first time. He started the washing machine for me and then also took back me to his room to give me more washing powder. He gave enough for next 6-7 washes. Some people are really selfless!
I also learned from the people that having such informal meetings was their way to recreate themselves. After a week of working and being in such formal atmospheres of offices in a land where people don't speak your language nor understand your culture, it is really relaxing for them to meet on Saturdays and have dinner together and have chatting over a wide diaspora of things.
This made me realized that these people are finding the meanings of their lives by bonding with each other, with the people who share common culture with them and understand their feelings.
So meeting with such beautiful people on that eve, especially Indians was a wonderful experience for me. :)